Dexter: The Final Season Review

Warning: Spoilers for all of Dexter, as in the entire series, follow...

So.

That could have gone better.

Now was this final season of Dexter a total waste? Looking back, now that we've seen it all, I'd have to say yes - although I still feel the Dexter/Deb antagonism within the first four episodes, culminating with the car crash in the season's strongest episode, "Scar Tissue," was really good. And most definitely an avenue that should have worked to inform the season more than it did (it essentially lasted only those four episodes). What happened after the crash into the lake though, with Dexter and Deb re-discovering their familial bond, was tragically boring, shoddy and unbecoming of something that we all hoped would be a riveting final run.

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